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Now comes the question of the soul leaving the body; where
does it go?
It cannot remain in this world where there is no natural
recipient for it; and it cannot remain attached to anything not
of a character to hold it: it can be held here when only it is
less than wise, containing within itself something of that which
lures it.
If it does contain any such alien element it gives itself, with
increasing attachment, to the sphere to which that element
naturally belongs and tends.
The space open to the soul's resort is vast and diverse; the
difference will come by the double force of the individual
condition and of the justice reigning in things. No one can ever
escape the suffering entailed by ill deeds done: the divine law
is ineluctable, carrying bound up, as one with it, the
fore-ordained execution of its doom. The sufferer, all unaware,
is swept onward towards his due, hurried always by the restless
driving of his errors, until at last wearied out by that against
which he struggled, he falls into his fit place and, by
self-chosen movement, is brought to the lot he never chose. And
the law decrees, also, the intensity and the duration of the
suffering while it carries with it, too, the lifting of
chastisement and the faculty of rising from those places of pain-
all by power of the harmony that maintains the universal scheme.
Souls, body-bound, are apt to body-punishment; clean souls no
longer drawing to themselves at any point any vestige of body
are, by their very being, outside the bodily sphere; body-free,
containing nothing of body- there where Essence is, and Being,
and the Divine within the Divinity, among Those, within That,
such a soul must be.
If you still ask Where, you must ask where those Beings are- and
in your seeking, seek otherwise than with the sight, and not as
one seeking for body.
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